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E.W. Niedermeyer
@Tweetermeyer
Over the past year or so I have wanted to believe that the Tesla story had turned a corner, and that long-overdue consequences had become inevitable. Today I find myself recommitting to the one thing that has been true all along: nothing is inevitable. Justice must be fought for.
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E.W. Niedermeyer
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Everyone has been so focused on the tech and the money, that nobody has made an accounting of Tesla's human cost. The workers at all levels who were chewed up and spit out. The customers who were induced into overreliance on unsafe tech, injuring and killing themselves and others
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E.W. Niedermeyer
@Tweetermeyer
We still have not yet confronted Tesla's most monstrous creation: a set of incentives that encourages anyone who wants to be the richest person in the world to recklessly endanger the public and simply lie about it. Left unconfronted, these incentives guarantee a dystopian future
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E.W. Niedermeyer
@Tweetermeyer
It seems increasingly clear that our elected officials either do not see the tragic human cost that this company has imposed, let alone the horrific incentives its leader has created, or they do not care. This battle has been left to those of us who were elected by what we know.
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E.W. Niedermeyer
@Tweetermeyer
Make no mistake: this is a battle. There are people inside the highest corridors of power, in finance, technology and politics, who will always back Musk. It's not about money or votes, especially now... it's a deep and unreasonable loyalty, extending to the point of criminality.
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E.W. Niedermeyer
@Tweetermeyer
At every step of this journey, my biggest mistake was believing that the cavalry would come. That it wouldn't be up to me. I know it doesn't seem like it, but I've resisted this fight in so many ways. No longer. Today I once again spit on my hands and raise the black flag.
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E.W. Niedermeyer
@Tweetermeyer
I'm not fighting for myself. I'm fighting for Josh Brown, Jeremy Banner, Walter Huang, Gao Yaning, and everyone else who has been hurt or killed by Tesla's cynicism and greed. The countless unnamed workers and their families. The critics and whistleblowers, mocked and attacked.
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E.W. Niedermeyer
@Tweetermeyer
Maybe, someday, when this is all over we can talk about why such obvious justice must be fought for in this country. Maybe we can learn how fraud and cynical public endangerment were allowed to flourish, and even be seen as heroic. But first we must fight. And fight I shall.
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E.W. Niedermeyer
@Tweetermeyer
I have countless partial drafts trying to bring the whole story of Autopilot and FSD into a manageable length, but it's hard. You have to start at the beginning, with the story of where Autopilot even came from. It's shocking how few people know this:
thedrive.com
Dr AutoPilot and Mr Autopilot: Why We Should Want Waymo’s Go-Slow Approach To Win
It’s cool to bash Waymo for moving slow, but in the life-and-death world of autonomous vehicles taking the hard road should be celebrated.
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E.W. Niedermeyer
@Tweetermeyer
You have to understand how much has been done to fool the public about what Autopilot is, and sell us its nonexistent safety benefits. thedrive.com/tech/26455/nht twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/s
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You know how I've been saying since 2016 that Tesla's comparison of raw Autopilot crash data to average human driver crash data is deceptive because it doesn't adjust for the safety of the operating domain (among other factors)? @NoahGoodall proved it! engrxiv.org/preprint/view/
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You have to realize that
@NTSB
has been raising the alarm about these issues since 2020. You have to accept that
@NHTSAgov
has been in absolute dereliction of their duty this entire time. You have to accept that
@SecretaryPete
doesn't get any of this.
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NTSB Board Meeting: Collision Between a Sport Utility Vehicle and a...
WASHINGTON (Feb. 25, 2020) — The National Transportation Safety Board held a public board meeting Tuesday during which it determined the probable cause for t...
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E.W. Niedermeyer
@Tweetermeyer
I've been struggling to get this all into a concise, readable draft for a long time now, and it's been the challenge of my career. Today I'm committing myself to trying harder. We need to understand this. We can't let this situation sail by. There's too much at stake. ✊
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